The evening world. Newspaper, May 10, 1905, Page 12

\ The Evening World’s Home Magazine, PRR RINT RICAN SINT ERE FREE BATHS AT CONEY. {| The Evening. World's campaign for a free bathing pavilion for the Poor people at Coney Island met with a gratifying initial success yester-) « day. The Board of Aldermen, on motion of Alderman Higgins, adopted & resolution requesting the Board of Estimate and Apportionment to au- thorize the issue of bonds to the amount of $100,000 for this purpose. With Borough President Littleton and Comptroller Grout supporting the plan, and Mayor McClellan favorably disposed, its success is reason- ‘ably well assured. No public benefit so great and so much needed can be Secured in any other direction for the same amount of money. It is al ‘i good enterprise to “push along.” is Supt. Hendricks’s dark-lantem investigation of the Equitable scandal begins to-day. Why add faice to comedy-tragedy? THE MURDERESS, Again there is a wave of sickly sentimentality over the death sentence Of a woman convicted of murder. Anna Valentina, an Italian woman living in New Jersey, stabbed to death a younger woman who was her successful rival for the “affec- tions” of a man who was the lawful husband of neither, The younger woman uttered a taunt to the older in passing, and was stilettoed with! her babe in her arms. The slayer was fairly tried and convicted of murder, The law of New Jerséy imposes the death penalty for this crime. The Governor was importuned to reprieve the prisoner, but has de- clined to do so, “It is a shame to hang a woman!” cries a clerical sensa- tionalist, But is it not something worse than a shame for one woman to kill another? Is not the victim as dead when killed by a woman as by a man? Is not the law equally violated? Is not the safety of society} equally menaced by all unpunished murders, whether by men or women? Is there any sex in crime? Capital punishment may be barbarous, wrong or unnecessary. ‘That is a matter for the people to decide in their laws. Possibly women murdérers should be exempt from the extreme penalty, But this should be settled by statute—not by sentimental appeals to an officer whose business it is to execute the laws, not to suspend or amend them. Gov. Stokes has simply recognized these facts in refusing to interfere. , Judge Lanning, of the United States District Court, has denied a writ of habeas corpus, and the appeal will act as a stay of execution. But this was done on legal, not sentimental grounds, Commissioner McAdoo has cut out more dead-wood from the police) force. But the deep-rooted System remains. THE FIFTH AVENUE PARK PLOT It is published that action is not looked for soon on the plan to “im- prove” Central Park by broadening Fifth avenue into it. The public Interest would be better served if action both immediate and decisive could be had. The matter does not require deliberation. A prompt proclamation by the City Improvement Commission that no scheme will be entertained looking to the diversion or mutilation of the great mid- urban breathing place is all that the plan and the occasion call for. As far back as 1878, Mr. Herman Knubel, now quoted against ‘the Fifth avenue scheme, led the fight which kept Jay Gould from adorning 4 the Fifty-ninth street front of Central Park with a row of elevated rail-} ¢ way pillars. In later years The World roused the public to defeat the} ; movement, backed by Mr. Croker at the height of his power, to turn] + the west side of the park into a speedway, And on lesser occasions, | } time and again, has been brought out the determination of the people to} 2 Keep the great central reservation as it is, intact, beautiful, adequate; the| ¢ People’s pleasure-ground, a Park, and a Park only, forever! Already cast out of the court of public opinion, the latest plot against the park should be put speedily also out of commission, Two more lives have been sacrificed to fool bets on the races. ‘Th i i | list will lengthen as the season advances, interspersed with defalcations and lost positions, ARE THE BIG LAW BREAKERS LICENSED? A cerrespondent of the Tribune, A. P. Shauffler, protests against the “negligent manner” in which the ordinance against smoke is enforced —or not enforced. He says that he photographed a number of chimneys out of which great clouds of black smoke were pouring, and sent pictures with dates and addresses to the Board of Health, “In two instances,” he says, “the nuisance has been abated, but in the others no notice appar- ently has been taken of the photographic evidence.” This again raises the question: Are the chief offenders in polluting the air of New York—the big corporation power-houses on the east side, for instance—licensed to do as they please? If so, who gets the license money? What. 1did the Democratic County Committee of Kings County think for a minute that “Pat” MeCarren would censure himself for his action in aefeaiing cheaper gas? What do they think he is in the Senate] ® for? And why is he an autonomous Boss? The People’s Corner. Letters from Evening World Readers Snuff, Perhapa, women and children, die each day, and 6 the Fdltor of The Byening Worl from the most terrible diseases, includ. Recently I walked into an lee-cream | ing spinal meningitis, tt would have g@atoon when three young men entered, | been better if he could have sentenced I particularly noticed them because !this confirmed criminal to death after they were Imughing and joking all the [his life of crime and physical and moral time, I saw one of them take out | filth in the prisons? I for one think the email bottle and pour a little pawder on |law should be so constituted, & piece of paper. He then blew it ALEXANDER LEAVITT. mong che people, and In about one-half lear Atena Of minute the entire place was neem jn. gion of 1 Correct, nK World thg as it their lives depended on it, my- | A says that a business letier should if included, Of what was Ae m= be “Dear Madam" as a salutation, re 2 rdles# of whe fuct that the party may i, Dreyfuas Was Found Guilty | pe an un: d womun, B says tt and Pardoned, | should be “Dear Miss.”’ MM. Write to Tenement Commissioner Cra itor of the Bvenme World: To the next door to mine 4s causing the under- Dreyfuss? | mining of the foundation of my prop- Denth for Criminals, | erty and In the last four months 1 nave Baltor of The Byening World: | written to the Board of Health {ai ere, 125,000 peo-° proceed to obtain better resiilts? A leak in the sewerage of the house| Remarks of Judge| times but received yo satisfaction, Will ‘Tracy, don't you | you kindly tell me how I shall have to $OSODOHHHHHHDHOHHHS ® WERT SEASON ? 1 snoulD SAY THe QUES STYLE N PPPDDHODHHHHHHHHHI-HFGHHGHSHHHOHHOOH ® | The End of the Theatrical Season. By J. Campbell Corey. ME CARRY A SPEAR > | ed what is Itnown as ‘a good memory.” | and the first section of that class, which PESY FOR THE WEARY & PIPLOFGGHS-9G-00S09O 00000006 | names will henceforth be ussociated by | principle, @ principle which is cortalnly {nected with ideas, and cannot there- |ing down that the first nine letters of | |vho alphabet shall stand respectively | for the nine numerals, and O for naught. jall the other letters remaining meaning- > | which to construct associations, ling will neither be random nor clumsy. | It will be carefully planned and worked jout so as to gain the greatest possible adaptable, elastic and comprehensive, | ——— 299999000 THIS 1S, OV LAST JERSON yf MaINiR DOW > Dy, 7PPROVE | Your children woke me up at 6 o'clock | une, THE MAN WHO Gor THE MAZUMA SOS996S509-6-4000O06 ne. $8ODOOO8 G56 GOOO0O0O009 09-04 Freakishness in the Styles—By 7. E. Powers, THE ROYAL. Roan To MENS TROUSER: Ny. COUGH = HOW SHE WL SLEEP Wednesday Evening, May §O, 1905. . How to Train The Memory. >| By T. P.O’Connor, M. P.| EMORY training, lke the ac- quisition of forelgn tongues. feoms to be a topic of Interest just now, Now, In the first place, it 1s necessary to consider what are the various pur- Poses of training the memory, These, IT think, can be divided into three classes or sorts; 1.'The purpose of acquiring and re- tatning facts in any branch of knowl- © purpose of remembering, tor a perlod more or less brief, and by a oon- selous effort, certain facts or impres- sions, or groups of facts or impressions, as they happen. . The purposs of Leing possessed of It ls the first of these throe classes, is loudeyt in tts outeny for an invigora- tor of memories, and to which most systems primarily appeal, Every vystem of memory training that {e not purely arbitrary must, I appre- hend, be based upon the well-known and ancient principle entitled "the as- scclation of ideas." A certain person has ao aifficulty in remembering cer- tadn extrinsic facts, Thus you may lear @ man say: "l always know the exact date of the battle of Waterloo be- cause I ns born on June 18" Ono thing suggests another, and the great object of the memory trainer !s, when ono thing does not sugges: another, aruificlally to induce it to surest an- other, Thus (in the matter of thoss Balkan capitals), Roumania does not suggest Bucharest, but if you think of maniac and of airesting him, you will never in future forget that Bucharest |s tho cap- ital of Roumanta, because the two en idea. I give this merely as i ran- dom and clumsy iMustration of the! capable, of marvellous elaboration and wide appiicati Tk can be uti! to memorize a ilst for shopping just as Stcvesstully as the heads of an argu-| ment or the good talas hoard at tho club, ‘The treatment of numbers is, and/ must be, more arbitrary and much more artificial. Numerals are not con- fore, as numerals, be connected one | with another, But if one begins by tay- | | | less, cne instantly hus a basis upon A first-class system of memory train- end by the smallest means. It will be full of minor Ingenuitles, It will bo The Laughoscope. “I don't suppose It would be of any uso to ask you to stny to tea," she sald, as he was about to depart. "No," he replied, ‘‘not In that style and tone of voice.” eee “Can't I go out in the back yard and play in the garden, mamma?" “Certainly not, ohild. You in and study your nature books. ee e Cobwigger—How did he get the raw- food tad? Codwell—He married a cooking-school sirl.—Harper’s Bazar, * 8 The way malaria germs combine In demonstrating frisicy, They hear a trust will make quinine Almost as dear as whiskey. —Washington Star, oe 8 Mra. Gwilliams (of the Jat above)— this morning with their nolse ang I didn't go to sleep again, Mrs, Bfiint—Did they? The darlings! They are so full of life.—-Chicago Trib- eo ee Migs Pinkte—Mr, Hunks, you muat nave heard of my brother, He has done conatderable writing, His pen name ts Omus Wymus, Old Hunks—I didn't know thero was such « thing as a "pen" name, I thought it was always a number,—Chicago Tribe KOTHING DOING HERE Lerten B a A people and children in Japan 1s|any proverb 1s read the holder of the elected, each divided into two ; party, each part printed on a separate |The player who {6 first ‘out’ card, The host has the hundred first|It 1# a very elmple game, but ft halves which he reads aloud, one by | fords a great deal of amusement to one, The hundred second halves are |p! RED the, quise-el tod 5 dealt to the other players, who place| 17 ies els thelr hands upward upon the ‘'Ta-| ‘This leads to much laughter seem, When rich young men can find nothing to do they take to, form of amusement. It ls probably IN THE BLOOD of the family. which turns naturally to TRANSPORTATION. scrap with a cab driver, We do not mean to arguo that they In the SAME CLASS because both drive horses, NOT AT Al) The coachman fs an aristocrat and the cab driver is The Man Higher Up. By Martin Green, 667 SEE," said the Cigar Store Man, “that some people are making a holler | because the streets are so dusty, that a man has to breathe dn his hat when he walks In the open air," “What do people expect trom old Dr, Woodbury, the pavengnt masseur?” quer Jed the Man Higher Up, "Hasn't he discovered a method of separating potato peelings from coffee grounds by the use of @ patent magnet? Isn't he the inven+ tor of a new style dump cart that can be changed (nto a hansom cab when the elty adopts muntelpal ownership of all transportation facilities? Dr, Woodbury Ls too busy to keep the streets clean, “He 18 making islands in Long Island Sound out of concrete composed of ashes and remnants of hash collected from boardiig-houses, All the gasoline weed In his automobiles ts squeezed from bottles gathered from glove-cleantng ¢a- tablishments, Even now his chemists are at work on a plan to manufacture gas for uso in the public buildings from the bread remnants his carts accumulate, , ‘The chemists figure that gas is what makes yeast rise. Why waste the gas in \nused bread, when it can be extracted and put Into tanks by simply reversing the process of baking? Nothing 1s wasted in the Street-Cleaning )epartment, Even the debris of the pavements is blown in through the open windows of the dwellings of the people, where it serves as an oxcellent preservative of furniture and carpets, "Tho hardest knockers against old Dr. Woodbury are the very people whe shnieked ‘the loudest to have him retained aa Street-Cleaning Commisstoner by Mayor McClellan. The Mayor was informed that he would crab his administra- Ulon from the start If he told Woodbury to 2. Ke lstened to the voice of the people and kept Woodbury. If he keeps Woodbury much longer the people won' have any volce,"’ “They keep Fifth avenue pretty clean,” remarked the Cigar Store Man. “'Yes,"" replied the Man Higher Up, his way up and down town." Mysterious People We Meet, —s By Robert Hichens. M’ People assume certain manners ag they assume certain clothes,.an@ That's the street Dr, Woodbury uses on! change those manners more seldom than they change their clothes, Some think {t ingratiating to be perky. Others think {t more graceful to be drooping and melancholy, to gaze wistfully, walk mournfully, and ait as ¢ before the baked meats of a funeral feast. But of all the people who indulge in travesty, I think I get most amusement out of the mysterious people, Bated, forever bated, is the breath of the mysterious person, Directly he comes into the room you are conscious of the presence of the unutterable, and Know that It will speedily be uttered into your most private ear. When he speaks to you he “takes you aside,’ 60 that none other may know that he Js telling you that the weather is damp and that thore in a deal of influenza about. As he diss, cusses with you such dreadful subjects as the price of hobnailed boots, the fluotue ations of stocks, the merits of President Roosevelt and the economies of the Ad- ministration, his head approaches yours, his lips pout secretively, his eyes glance round warily to make eure that no one js within earshot to betray him and you. Tho gallows fs surely in hts memory, He wishes to avold It. He wishes—kind ly wretch!—to save you from It also. Meet him half way. It 1s such fun to 0@ that, He responds sensitively to the slightest mysterious encouragement and thinks he ts Impressing you and that you bellevo him to be a strange and re- markable personage. and that you will go away and say, “Glad I met John Smith, Interesting man, Not every day you come across a man like ¢hat.'' i Many women are mysterious, Indeed, I have met more mysterious women than mysterious men. The mysterious wonran {8 often small, but her hats are large, plumed like a hearse. and generally Uiack as night. Pale ia her face and languld her manner. She tries to look consumptive and succeeds surprisingly often, As arulo she has little to say but says it In such an awful manner that it takes on a fictitious importance and for the moment appears to be impressive, Think over your acquaintances and friends. Are not some of them mysterious, and are not they highly considered, are not they called ‘dnteresting’ on that ac» *) count? ‘here are many spurious things in the social world, but few things are ) more spuriobs than that reputation for being interesting wihfah ts gained by the | mysterious manner, And half of tho world at lena: ts tricked. For every-day perkiness {8 called brilliance, mystery wisdom, assurance greatness, and the puppet In the mask a glant in the sunshine,—Chicago Tribune, A Three Minutes’ Forum}, American Manners. | Ts average American man {s so much more polite, agreeable and con-% | aiderate to the average woman that all other men seem rough ané indifferent by comparison. In this department if in no other th American man has no rival. He is the best-mannered creature in the worl¢ to the casual human belng—especially female human belng—he brushes elbows with In the course of the day's march. He doesn’t uso half as many ‘*Mhank- yous" as the French, or bow and smile so much, but he will give himself trouble to open doors, to hail carriages, to get up and offer his seat in omni- buses, to help beparcelled women onto trains and ‘hold the baby while the nother helps off the rest of her offspring, The Servant Question. 3 EARLY all tho solutions offered to settle the servant-girl problem tend } toward one end—the complete abolishment of the kitchen as an adjunct ¢ | of the modern home, One of these kitchen exterminators recently sug- 1d that a company be incorporated with sufficient capital to establish in various districts of a city large kitchens ui the management of competent chefs, with @ properly organized force of ai tants and helpers. These vari- ous district kitchens were to be controlled from a central etation, and were $ to prepare and distribute meals at the residences of subscribers, the meais to be served In properly constructed, self-heating receptacles, the necessary dishes to be sent with the food, and, if desired, an assistant to arrange the table or a waiter to serve the meal, ge Isn’t New York Cozy? j HERE {s nothing cozy about New York, It is not a clty where a stran-$ | I ger can readily make a nest and fee] at home, It does not welcome the foreigner with a smile and a polite "Now make yourself happy and comfortable,” It says, tacitly: ‘Well, now that you're here I suppose you'll have to stay, but don’t get in the way and bother people.” Parts, on the other hand, Is the cozlest city in the world, It welcomes the new-comer In thousand ways, It offers him the finest education in the world for nathing.$ | Before him for miles lle the charm and wonder and mystery of those ¢asci- nating streete—each with its own character—eome as full of history es an egg Is of meat, A Japanese Card Game. { GAME popular with both mrown| which they alt. As the fret bettvop | id half throws it out, of, tf he played as follow: je0on | . 11K roverbs {t unnoticed among ‘his neighbors, One’ hundred well-known p nncetoea asee Sree ' wins, | ate |! the im ir duller and tami,"’ or thick mat of noch atraw on natyred teasing, The ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotorial. The recent advent of a Goach- |The Coachman man in circles of higher society in Society. ff has evoked some commont ¥ wholly deserved. The AFFINITY between the coachman and 80- clety is CLOSER than it may. (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub. Co.) COACH DRIVING as an occupation, The Vanderbilts favor this Personally the nearest we ever get tu tho coachmariste we do not care to state publicly, We would not care to take a cab driver into ANY circlegry which we were Interested, They are de trop so far as WE are |